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Pork Barrel politics County Executive Brian Hughes is at it again! He has made it a habit of dipping into the political pork barrel and rewarding political friends, especially Democrats, with jobs, with some of them being high-paying. His latest example is rewarding Verlina Reynolds-Jackson, who is expected to be sworn in to fill the Assembly seat vacated by Liz Muoio, with a $94,000 job as a grants administrator for the county.

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WASHINGTON >> In an extraordinary indictment, the U.S. special counsel accused 13 Russians Friday of an elaborate plot to disrupt the 2016 presidential election, charging them with running a huge but hidden social media trolling campaign aimed in part at helping Republican Donald Trump defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton.

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Nikolas Cruz is just the latest U.S. mass shooter to legally obtain and own guns because of limited firearms laws, lapses in the background check process or law enforcement’s failure to heed warnings of concerning behavior.